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Hi Everyone Just thought I would follow this up as I now have a solution for this Google have now updated their GP templates to separate "Google Safesearch" and "Youtube Safety". On our old template it was just one control that was Safesearch. I think this is because Google and Youtube have since linked them together and if you do not update your templates and have Safesearch selected on the older one, it will just turn it all on. So to confirm the solution to this for us was to download the latest ADM templates for Chrome and set it all back up again from scratch.

Hi Guys Am I able to inject the .NET updates into my Win 7 WIM file? For the Office updates, I have been extracting the MSP files from the EXE's, then pop into updates folder of Office. There are loads of .NET updates that need to be installed every time we run a deployment so would like to integrate them to save time. Is this possible and if so can someone tell me how? Thanks Guys

Caffrey, does your web filter pick up stuff that Google Safesearch doesn't do any more? As in if someone searched for pornography, would your own web filter stop that? It seems that the rules on filtering are a little grey but I do question whether turning off Google Safesearch, even for staff could be a safeguarding issue?

Hi Guys Has anyone else noticed a change with Youtube when it comes to Safesearch. We are signed up with Google to make sure that searches are filtered, however it seems youtube may have now been integrated and teachers are complaining all over the place that half of their videos they show in class will now not play as its blocked by safesearch. Does anyone have any information on this or been effected? Thanks

Just got ours today, These guys kindly sent 4 pairs for all the guys in the office. Thanks VeryPC!

Hi all We have finally decided that we are spending way too much time trying to constantly fix our Samsung LFD display boards. Its time for an upgrade to something better, however I have no idea where to start. The ones we currently have run XP embedded and have about 2 gb of space and that's excluding the OS. The idea of Magicinfo was great, however its very fiddly and takes ages to config what you need. So if anyone has some suggestions on where to start looking that would be great, ideally alternatives to Samsung and Magicinfo. We were also thinking of maybe putting a small form factor machine or a Raspberry Pi onto it and just using the display part of the screen, but not sure what's out there without the hardware support. Any idea would be very much appreciated. Thanks

Still on hold.......... A complete Joke

Well thats basically what I am doing, however I have not updated the notebook packaged in a while and they may have updated the driver pack that is intergrated into the main "Education Software 2013". I would download a fresh copy of the whole thing, run a manual install, then check the driver version number. If it meets the current one advertised on thier website then you should be fine. I deployed the whole school in Summer 2014, and since then I have had around 10 classrooms report about Excel not opening and freezing on the splash screen. I have run the driver install as a silent install from MDT on all of them and the problem has gone away. Smart seem to say a lot of things, the last thing they said was that it will not work on our RDS server, however we put it on and its fine. The 1st line guys seem to just say whatever is easier at the time.

Please note that Smart have resolved this now with the latest "Smart Product Drivers". I'm not sure if they have updated the version that comes bolted with Smart Notebook, but I can say 100% that if you download the latest product drivers download and install, it will fix the issue. On our MDT server I have just created a software group for Smart Notebook, with 2 dependencies, one being the full install, then 2nd re installation of product drivers.

Thanks computer_expert, sorry it took this long to send my thanks, I have been off work. This could very well save me ALOT of time. Much appreciated

Hi Arthur. Thanks for your advice, I will have a look at WinToolKit. So what is the best practice for this? This is how I started and have continued. * Started with vanilla Win 7, installed all the microsoft products like office, visio, visual studio, .NET ect. * Enabled Microsoft update * Kept updating until no updates left. * One by one going to Download centre and downloading each update that was needed. * Then pumping those in via RT7 lite. * Then every couple of months, grab a machine, deploy via mdt. Then run windows update, then do the same thing again and download all updated that it took. * I was going to then just update the Wim that I had updated previously with the newer updates. The issue I see now is that I'm not going to know if there is a superseded update, as even if I started from scratch I was still going to use the existing updates from months ago, pump those into the fresh image along with the newer ones. Do I in fact have to start all over again, get a fresh win 7 image and update it then download them all again from download centre? If there is an easier way, I would very much appriciate someone enlightening me as it seems like its going to be a knightmare! Something else to add to this is that we currently do not have WSUS set up yet, and I am doing this because we are doing a laptop refresh of all staff laptops, and at the moment my 1st line guy is having to run Microsoft update at the moment on every machine which includes around 100 updates and its taking a long time, especially when you have around 50-60 laptops to do! Thanks in advance

Apologies if this is an obvious question, but if I have used RT7 Lite to pump in updates into a Win 7 image, then 6 months down the line, pump more updates into the image, will this keep the previous lot of updates caked in or do I need to pump them all in again? Thanks guys

Below is the Html file I use "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> BBC Live Streams dp.SyntaxHighlighter.HighlightAll('onceCode'); var width= 740; var height= 550; var playlist; var config; var revision; function reload(url) { var emp = new embeddedMedia.Player(); emp.setWidth(width); emp.setHeight(height); emp.setDomId("emp1"); emp.set("config_settings_autoPlay","true"); playlist = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/"+url+".xml"; emp.setPlaylist(playlist); config = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/config_"+url+".xml"; emp.setConfig(config); emp.write(); updateEmbed(); } function updateEmbed() { $('codeWrap').update(' '); $('embedCode').update("var emp = new embeddedMedia.Player();"+"\n"+ "emp.setWidth('"+width+"');"+"\n"+ "emp.setHeight('"+height+"');"+"\n"+ "emp.setPlaylist('"+playlist+"');"+"\n"+ "emp.setConfig('"+config+"');"+"\n"+ "emp.write();"); dp.SyntaxHighlighter.HighlightAll('code'); } reload("bbc_news24");

Hi Guys I have 2 Magicinfo Samsung display boards. For the past 2 years I have been streaming BBC news, and I simply ass the necessary code to an HTML file then embed that file onto the LFD. In the last 2 weeks, its stopped working, giving me the message that javascript needs to be enables and flash installed. I know that javascript is enabled in IE (which I am sure magicinfo uses IE for web based material) I know I also have flash installed. When I load the html file on my machine I get the same error, which leads me to believe that maybe the BBC have done something to this Before I spend a load of time investigating this, has anyone else had this happen to them? Kind Regards Alex

Just had this at my school for Hairspray. The batch file works best, just install the exe on each client you run as, then I have just stuck the batch file on the start menu. Nice handy topic this one, thanks @mrbios